Events

Joe Wharton, a principal in The Brattle Group’s San Francisco office, will participate in a panel discussion at GE’s Smart Grid Executive Summit taking place in Carlsbad, California on October 5-7, 2010. The GE summit will focus on how to motivate consumers through the current electricity evolution, explore new policy and regulatory initiatives, and identify new utility business models to help transform the electric industry. Dr. Wharton’s panel will discuss the role of the smart grid in the utility of the future, including utility plans for the next 20 years, new utility business models enabled by the smart grid, capital asset structure and financing, integrated resource planning, and long-term sustainable technology.